Word: featherly
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...find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward, Ann, a little-girl Galatea from the London slums, and was growing as fond of her as of a stray Puppy...
...South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those...
...Toward us, like a great feather ... is the Hindenburg. The members of the crew are looking down on the field ahead of them getting their glimpses of the mooring mast...
...boats came through the bridge and down the sprint to the finish neck and neck. Perhaps Tech was ahead by a few feel, perhaps they weren't, but fortune was with the Crimson and in the last 100 yards Tech's number seven man did a reverse feather, almost stopped his boat dead...
...Minute inspection failed to disclose any evidence, not even a feather, to support the contention that the white man's contraption might be able...